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Metal Slug: Awakening
Metal Slug: Awakening continues the classic gameplay loved by fans, with exciting new features like World Adventure, 3-player Team-up, and Roguelike challenges. Join forces with your friends online to take on powerful bosses anytime, anywhere!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Pros: -Free to play -Nostalgic characters -Pretty well done 3D effects -Good mechanics and movement without input lag -Fairly interesting and long single player storyline Cons: -Modern "pay to win" scheme -Forced daily events and events and tasks in general -Menu too crowded…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“A fun action platformer and the first true Metal Slug game in many years - a great value proposition for $0.”
— a player, Steam review · 52 hrs played“This is a pretty solid Metal Slug experience. Slight mmo approach. Fun events. A lot of different game modes along with a Metal Slug campaign. PvP has been a lot of fun for me. I only stopped playing because it started to crash a lot after a recent update. Seems like a new…”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
New Version Coming Soon!
Dear Commanders, The "Folded Spacetime, Endless Causality" version is here in full force, bringing brand-new S8 Season mechanics and game modes for you to take on! We will be performing server mainten
Early September Event Preview
1. Djinn Wish: "Life Source" Awaken ▶ Event Time: Sep 1 - Sep 7 (Server Time) ▶ Event Details: During the event, use Wish Vouchers to draw for a chance to get Life Source Blueprints, Hunting Fang Frag
Late August Event Preview
Let's take a look at the events waiting for Commanders in the second half of August! 1. Weapon Debut: Radiation Gun ▶ Event Time: August 16 - August 23 (Server Time) ▶ Event Details: A New Weapon has
Early August Event Preview
Let's take a look at the events waiting for Commanders in the first half of August! 1. Treasure Dig Weekly Benefit ▶ Event Time: August 3 - September 27 (Server Time) ▶ Event Details: During the event
Early July Event Preview
Let's take a look at the events waiting for you in the first half of July, Commanders! 1. Shop Benefits Upgrade ▶ Event Time: From July 1 ▶ Event Details: "Mysterious Shop - Monthly Exclusive Benefits
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Shoot 'Em Up · 2D Platformer · Arcade · Twin Stick Shooter · Beat 'em up · Shooter · Casual · Platformer · RPG · Action-Adventure · Action · PvE (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · In-App Purchases · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Japanese * , Simplified Chinese * , Korean * , Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows7 SP1/Windows8.1/Windows10/Windows 11, 64-bit Processor: Inter Core i3 gen8 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 30 GB available space